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From an oldtime wet-plate original netiative made by Alexander Hesler, of Chicatio. at the request of 

tlie National Republican Committee, directly after Mr. Lincoln's nomination, in 1860. iSee paue 26i. 

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INDEPENDENCE DAY has come again with its memories 
of the brave men who in the long ago, in this very city, 
pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor 
that this land might enjoy the blessings of liberty. 

For some years we have on this anniversary published a 
booklet on one of the worthy men of other days. As every 
one knows, this is Lincoln's Centennial Year ; and this fact 
has determined that our subject now should be the man who, 
better than any other, caught the spirit and established the 
work of the builders of our Nation — strong, wise, able, loving, 
faithful Father Abraham. 

This is not a life of Lincoln. It is merely a reminder of 
him. It is not an attempt to tell something new, but simply 
to tell again — by word and picture to recall the man. Multi- 
tudes love to read about him, to think about him, to talk about 
hini ; here, then, those who wish may see his birthplace as it 
was and as it is to be ; the book he studied and the rails he 
split; his hand and the maul it swung: his home and his tomb ; 
his form and his face ; the clear writing of his hand and the 
clearer thoughts of his brain ; reminders all of our Lincoln — 
the one we love the best of all. 



PHILADELPHIA 
INDEPENDENCE DAY 
NINETEEN NINE 





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HOUSE IN WHICH ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN 
From Harper's Weekly, Kebruary 13, 1909 



IN THIS LITTLE CABIN, ON A LITTLE FARM 


NEAR HODGEN- 


VILLE, KENTUCKY, WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 12, 1809, TO 


THOMAS AND NANCY HANKS LINCOLN, 


FHE SIXTEENTH 


PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 


OF AMERICA, 


ABRAHAM LINCOLN 




PIONEER, BOATMAN, 


LABORER, 


RAIL-SPLITTER, STORE-KEEPER, 


SURVEYOR, 


LAWYER, LEGISLATOR, 


ORATOR, 


PRESIDENT, COMMANDER, 


PARDONER, 


STATESMAN, DIPLOMATIST, 


PATRIOT, 


PHILOSOPHER, RECONCILER, 


SHEPHERD, 


FATHER, EMANCIPATOR, 


MARTYR, 


PROTECTOR OF ALL LIFE, 




LOVER OF ALL MANKIND. 








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MEMORIAL BUILDING TO BE ERECTED ON THE LINCOLN FARM. 
From Collier's Weekly. February i;{, 1909. 



The Lincoln Farm Association is a patriotic organization formed of American citizens 
for the purpose of preserving as a National Park the farm on which Abraham Lincoln 
was born. It has already purchased the farm of one hundred and ten acres, which is 
situated two miles from Hodgenville, in the geographic center of Kentucky. It has also 
obtained possession of the log cabin which sheltered Nancy Hanks Lincoln and her won- 
derful child. This will be preserved for all time in the granite memorial shown above. 
The corner-stone of this building was laid by President Roosevelt on Lincoln's Centen- 
nial, February 12, 1909, and President Taft is to dedicate it in the near future. 

The Lincoln Farm Association has already over 100,000 members, who have con- 
tributed over $100,000. The officers and directors are men of national prominence and 
recognized public spirit. A handsome certificate of membership is sent to every one 
who contributes 25 cents or more. The names of contributors, classified geographically, 
are to be preserved in the fireproof memorial building. 

This is a popular movement, and there is room and a welcome in it for all the plain 
people whom Lincoln so understood and loved. Send your contribution to Clarence H. 
Mackay, Treasurer Lincoln Farm Association, 74 Broadway, New York City, and have a 
part in making "the little farm that raised a man" a nation's shrine, and join the host of 
those who would do honor to the one we love the best of all. 







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From "Life of Lincoln," published by Doubleday, Page *.- Co. 



In 1831, while clerking in a grocery 
store at New Salem, Illinois, Lincoln de- 
termined to study grammar in order to fit 
himself better for public speaking and 
writing. He walked fourteen miles for 
this book. On the counter of the store, 
or in the shade of a tree, he worked for 
hours on its rules. He later gave this 
book to Ann Rutledge, his early sweet- 
heart. The words on the title page, "Ann 
M. Rutledge is now learning grammar," 
were written by Lincoln. The order in 
Lincoln's hand on James Rutledge was 
later pasted on the inner cover by Robert 
Rutledge, whose widow came into pos- 
session of this most interesting relic. 

Lincoln worked for his learning; 
worked for it long and hard ; worked for 
it in a way only less remarkable than the 
result he obtained. He had the wisdom 
to recognize that an education was indis- 
pensable to him, and the courage, like- 
wise, to pay the price. His grammar he 
knew by heart, his law books became a 
part of his mind. He says his habit was 
to bound a subject north, south, east and 



west, and so to grasp it and make it his 
own. With this habit of mind, with the 
Bible as his model, with Shakespeare, 
Burns and Bunyan for his intimate com- 
panions, he in time became able to produce 
a letter like that herewith, which hangs 
to-day on the wall at Oxford, the ancient 
seat of learning, as an example of the 
English language at its best. 

A letter to Mrs. Bixley of Boston, 
November 21, 1864 : 

" Dear Madam : 

I have been shown in the files 
of the War Department a statement of the 
Adjutant General of MassachuseUs that 
you are the mother of five sons who have 
died gloriously on the field of battle. 1 
feel how weak and fruitless must be an.v 
words of mine which should attempt to be- 
(juile you from a loss so overwhelmint;. 
but 1 cannot refrain from tenderinu' you 
the consolation that may be found in the 
thanks of the Republic they died to save. 
I pray our Heavenly Father may assuatre 
the anguish of your bereavement, and 
leave you only the cherished memory of 
the loved and lost and the solemn pride tliat 
must be yours to have laid s(j costly a sacri- 
fice on the altar of freedom. 
Yours very sincerely and respectfully, 

Ahraham Lincoln." 




ABRAHAM LINCOLN READING LAW IN THE GROCERY STORE AT NEW 
SALEM, ILLINOIS, OF WHICH HE WAS PART OWNER 
From Century Magazine, February 1909 



SINCE LINCOLN 

In the life and achievements of Abraham 
Lincoln every humble and deserving child of toil 
may see the promise of a better day. 

Since Thomas Lincoln, what father, however 
poor his condition and heavy his toil, may not as 
he eats the bread of honest sweat, cherish the hope 
that standing on the shoulders of his father's faith- 
ful work and honorable conduct, his son shall rise 
to a position of greater usefulness and higher honor 
than he himself has attained. 

And since Nancy Hanks Lincoln, what mother 
may not as she holds her little one to her breast, 
pondering, like Mary of Nazareth, on the deep, 
mysterious things of life, breathe the faith-filled 
prayer that her child may prove a blessing to 
her country and her race. 

And since Sarah Bush Lincoln, what woman 
when called upon to be a mother to one who is not 
her son, shall not the more freely give of her love 
and her sympathy, her instruction, and her encour- 
agement to the needy young life that has been 
placed in her care, knowing since her day of that 
stepmother's exceeding great reward. 

And since Abraham Lincoln, what American 
boy need lack courage or high aim ? Who shall 
cheat him of his birthright, made more sure by 
Lincoln's achievements? Who shall not hence- 
forth know that no matter how humble his birth 
or great his obstacles, with faith in God, in man 
and in work—" With faith in the right as Ciod gives 
us to see the right," there lies open before him the 
pathway to usefulness, honor and success. 








LINCOLN'S RAIL-SPLITTING MAUL 

This maul was oblained in 1860 of John Hanks of Sangamon County, Illinois, a friend of Abraham 
Lincoln, with whom he worked at splitting rails, and was certified by Hanks to have been used by Lincoln. 
It was obtained of Hanks by Thomas S. Mather. Adjutant General of Illinois, at the request of .Jonathan F. 
Morris, of Hartford, Connecticut, for the political organization of "Wide Awakes" of Hartford. Mather took 
the maul to Lincoln, who was at the time using the offices of the (iovernor of the State of Illinois as his 
headiiuartcrs in the campaign of 1860. Lincoln stated that it was in his opinion genuine, and that whatever 
John Hanks said of it was to be believed, as he was a truthful man. After being used by tlie "Wide Awakes," 
to whom it was presented in 1860. the maul remained in the possession of Vincent Whiting, from whose 
widow it again came into the possession of Mr. Morris, who soon after, on May 7th, IS!)5, presented it to the 
Connecticut Historical Society. 



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CAST FROM THE RIGHT HAND OF 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 

Made by Leonard W. Volk. 

at Sprincfield. 1860. From 

the Century Magazine, 

February 1909. 

(See paye 26) 




For untold 
ages hands have 
wrought and hands 
have written, but, of the 
countless milUons, to this hand 
only was it given to convey to the 
human race these pregnant words : 

"I do order and declare that all persons 
held as slaves within said designated States are, 
and henceforward shall be, free. 

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the 
Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind 
and the gracious favor of Almighty God." 



Look on this cast, and know the hand 
That bore a nation in its hold ; 

From this mute witness understand 
What Lincoln was— how large of mold. 



What better than this voiceless cast 

To tell of such a one as he, 
Since through its living semblance passed 

The thought that bade a race be free ! 

EDMITND CLARENCE STEDMAN 



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LINCOLN HOME. SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 
Prum "Life of Lincoln," pviljlished by Doiibleday, Pajie A- Co. 

Plioloyraph by A. J. Whipple of Boston. Mr. Lincoln and one of his sons stand inside the fence. House 
is located at Eighth Street and Capitol avenue. It was built in 1839. Purchased by Lincoln in 1844, and his 
home until he left for Washintrton. Originally one and a half stories, Mrs. Lincoln had it raised to its preseni 
lieiijht as a surprise to Mr. Lincoln while he was once absent on "the circuit." In 1883 Captain 0. H. Oldroyd 
rented the house and opened its doors to the people. He maintained this at his own expense until 1887, 
when by the t^ift of Hon. Robert T. Lincoln the State of Illinois became the owner of the place and ap- 
pointed Captain Oldroyd its first custodian. It contains many valuable relics. 



On Monday morning, February 11, 1861, 
at the railway station, Springfield, from 
the platform of the car, in a pouring rain, 
with uncovered head and uplifted hand, 
Abraham Lincoln spake these words : 

"My friends, no one not in my situation 
can appreciate my feeling of sadness at 
this parting. To this place, and the kind- 
ness of these people, I owe everything. 
Here I have lived a quarter of a century, 
and have passed from a young to an old 
man. Here my children have been born, 
and one is buried. I now leave, not 
knowing when or whether ever I may 
return, with a task before me greater 
than that which rested upon Washington. 
Without the assistance of that Divine 
Being who ever attended him I cannot 
succeed. With that assistance I cannot 
fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with 
me and remain with you, and be every- 
where for good, let us confidently hope 
that all will yet be well. To His care com- 
mending you, as I hope in your prayers 
you will commend me, I bid you an af- 
fectionate farewell." 



The great soul of Abraham Lincoln 
was liberated Saturday, April 15, 1865. 
The body which had housed it was taken 
from Washington to Springfield by way 
of Baltimore, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, 
New York, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, 
Columbus, Indianapolis and Chicago. 
On every mile of this sad journey the 
martyr's body called forth such love, re- 
respect and grief as the world had never 
witnessed. In large cities elaborate exer- 
cises were held, and countless thousands 
spent the nights as well as days in passing 
before his face, while at every railway 
station, hamlet or lonely farmhouse along 
the track the grief-stricken people gave 
sad salute. On May 3rd the funeral train 
reached Springfield, and on the following 
day, after an oration by Bishop Simpson, 
and the reading of his Second Inaugural 
over the open grave, the body of The 
(ireat American was finally laid to rest. 

"We I'est in peace where his sad eyes 

Saw peril, strife and pain : 
His was the awful sacrifice. 

And ours the priceless ifain." 



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LINCOLN'S FINAL RESTING PLACE, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 
From Harper's Weekly, February 13, 190S 



Great as was Lincoln's influence on 
the men of his time, greater still is it on 
the men of to-day. Ask a hundred Ameri- 
cans what public character they most 
admire, most care to read about, think 
about, hear about, and the almost unani- 
mous answer will be Lincoln. As Secre- 
tary Stanton declared when the light in 
Lincoln's tired eyes went out forever : 
" Now he belongs to the ages." Right, 
stern, duty-doing War Secretary ! Right ! 
So has it been ! So will it be ! Those of 
every age to come who wish to express 
the best and suppress the worst in them- 
selves and in public life will find in 
Lincoln's struggles and success their 
greatest encouragement and inspiration. 

Among countless tributes to Lincoln, 
that of Lowell stands conspicuous. It is 
all the more remarkable because of its 
date. It was read at the Harvard Com- 
memoration within a few months of his 
death, yet its wonderful comprehension 
of the man, its deep feeling and its beau- 
tiful expression leave nothing to be de- 
sired after forty years. It should be read 
and studied as an aid to forming a mental 
picture of the one we love the best of all. 



COMMEMORATION ODE 

Nature, they say, doth dote. 

And cannot make a man 

Save on some worn-out plan, 

Repeatini^ us by rote : 
For him her Old World moulds aside she threw. 
And. choosint? sweet clay from the breast 

Of the unexhausted West. 
With stuff untainted shaped a hero new. 
Wise, steadfast in the strength of God. and true. 



How beautiful to see 
Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed. 
Who loved his ehartre, but never loved to lead : 
One whose meek flock the people joyed to be. 
Not lured by any cheat of birth 
But by his clear-grained human worth. 
And brave old wisdom of sincerity ! 

They knew that outward grace is dust : 
They could not choose but trust 
In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill 

And supple-tempered will 
That bent like perfect steel to spring again and 
thrust. 



He knew to bide his time. 
And can his fame abide, 
Still patient in his simple faith sublime, 
Till the wise years decide. 
Great captains with their guns and drums. 
Disturb our judgment for the hour, 
But. at last, silence comes : 
These all are gone, and standing like a tower. 
Our children shall behold his fame. 

The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man. 
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame. 
New birth of our new soil, the first American. 



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Abraham Lincoln was a lover, an ex- 
ponent of "the love that stronger is than 
hate" — a modern Ben Adhem, who loved 
his fellowmen and his God ; whose love 
of Uod was oftenest shown in his love 
foi- all (ii)d's children everywhere. 

A good way to observe Indepenilence 
Day is to thank Uoil for Abi'aham Lincoln, 
a man who lived years in advance of his 
time, a man of the people, who, in the 
midst of unique difficulties and misunder- 




Lll I M\^1niiI M:UA1IAM LIN'COLN 
Made in Chirauo in 1862 by lA-unard U. \ olli. Engraved on wood i»y I li 
From Century Magazine. February 1909 



standings, guided our Nation through the 
fiercest Civil War, treating all issues 
with a fairness and all men with a kind- 
ness that it has taken his countrymen 
two generations of peace to acquire. 
So let every American thank God for 
him to-day, and if he values his country 
and his blessings, let him see that some 
of those who are coming after us are 
taught to love Lincoln, to revere his 
name and to follow his great example. 



Lincoln's supremacy in American 
hearts is due to many causes : We love 
him for his victory over poverty and 
appalling obstacles; for his fidelity to 
duty ; for his loyalty to the right ; for his 
great unselfishness ; for his patience and 
self-control ; for his wisdom and faii'- 
ness ; for his tenderness and forgive- 
ness ; for his courage and sincerity ; foi' 
his humor and humanity ; for his love of 
God and man and country ; in short, we 
love him for the 
qualities that ap- 
peal to human 
hearts the world 
over, qualities that 
in our better mo- 
ments each of 
us would like to 
have control our 
individual lives. 

Because Lincoln 
lived and loved 
and did his best 
our lives are bet- 
ter, and the lives 
of millions yet un- 
born will be better 
still. Yes, and be- 
cause he lived and 
did his best, our 
best is due those 
among whom we 
live and the ob- 
jects to which he 
devoted his pow- 
ers and for which 
he gave his life. 

A c h a r m i n g 
trait in Lincoln's 
character was sin- 
cerity. His heart 
was like the clear, 
deep spring from 
which we slaked 
our thirst in child- 
hood's days, look- 
ing the while into 
its (juiet depths and finding it sweet anil 
clear to the very bottom. A heart pure 
and transparent, not muddy with strife 
nor tinctured with bitterness, a spring of 
love flowing on and on for all. It was this 
sincerity that gained for him the name of 
"Honest Abe." This did not alone or 
mainly mean that be was honest in dol- 
lars and cents, but that he was honest in 
purpose, in speech, in deed ; honest in all 
wavs, honest at all times. "Honest Abe." 




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HEROIC BUST OF LINCOLN 
From American Magazine, February 1908, when it was first publislied. 

Sculptured in marble by Gutzon Borglum. Finished December, 1908. Purchased by Mr. Eugene Meyer, Jr., 
of New York, and presented to the United States Government. Now in the Capitol at Washington. 



We ought never to forget that Abraham 
Lincohi, one of the mightiest masters of 
statecraft that history has ever known, was 
also one of the most devoted and faithful 
servants of Almighty God who has ever sat 
in the high placesof the world. — J. (7. Hlaint. 



He was one whom responsibility edu- 
cated, and he showed himself more and 
more nearly equal to duty as year after 
year laid on him ever fresh burdens. 
God-given and God-led and sustained, we 
must ever believe him. — ItVv/./c// PlitUipi. 



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(iRANLt REVIEW OF THE AKMV OK THE POTOMAC BY 
From "Life of Lincoln," 



*''V'L- arc comn^ '^cdke/i dtyrakoMn 

A mighty chorus this ! Lumbermen from the forest, mechanics from the shops, 
merchants from the stores, students from the schools, lawyers from the courts, 
ministers from the pulpits, farmers from the land, sailors from the sea, realizing 
that life was not the greatest blessing, joined the host and pledged their lives to 
the preservation of a government of and for and by the people as they sang, 
"We are coming. Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more." 



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PRESIDENT LINCOLN. AT FALMOUTH, VA., IN APRIL KMi:i. 
Published by Doubleday. Page & Co. 



One of the sons of Father Abraham, present at this review, wrote, "We had 
no eyes save for our revered President, the Commander-in-chief. We passed close 
to him, so that he could look into our faces and we into his. None of us to our dying- 
days can forget that countenance ! Concentrated in that one great, strong yet tender 
face, the agony of the life or death struggle of the hour was revealed as we had 
never seen it before. With new understanding we knew why we were soldiers." 



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SAINT GAUDEN'S STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCnl 
From the Century Magazine, I'- 



A work of iireat dicnity and artistic excellence. The more it is studied Ihe more impressive it aPDears. 
simplicity and naturalness are charmintc. It is indeed fortunate tor our comins; generations that the 1,'reat 



Its simp 

American has been i)reserved for Ihem in this way by our t'reat artist. 



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From Putnam's Magazine, February IBOU 



The above endorsement was made by 
President Lincoln on the original manu- 
script of the Second Inaugural, which he 
presented to his secretary, John Hay, 
later our country's great Secretary of 
State. This most interesting manuscript, 
which is presented in the following pages, 
was first reproduced in Putnam's Maga- 
zine of February 1909, and is printed here 
by their permission. 

In the following pages there is also 
presented an autograph copy of Lincoln's 
address at Gettysburg. It is hoped that a 
perusal of these famous words in their 
original form will give increased satisfac- 
tion to those who have long recognized 
them as among the most wonderful speci- 
mens of human speech. 

The scholars of old Judea voiced an 
attitude common before and since their 
day when they exclaimed regarding the 
Carpenter of Nazareth, "Whence hath 



this man letters, having never learned?" 
In their amazement at its form and source 
they failed to grasp the value of the truth 
expressed. It is not enough for us to 
wonder that this unschooled backwoods- 
man could by infinite toil so develop his 
mind and his speech ; it is far more im- 
portant to study his message and extend 
his spirit to those among whom we live ; 
to take, for instance, his famous words, 
"With malice toward none, with charity 
for all," and to practice them, to live 
them until lawlessness and lynching shall 
no more be found among us, and class 
hatred and race hatred shall be lost in the 
broad humanity of which Lincoln was the 
world's best example. Till the day fore- 
shadowed in one of his favorite poems, 
Burns' "A man's a man for all that." 

■■ For all that and all that. 
It's comintj yet for all that : 
When man to man the world o'er 
Shall brothers be for all that." 



THE LAST CHANCE 

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LINCOLN AS SEEN BY CONTEMPORARIES 

It seems less difficult to understand and appreciate Lincoln in our time than it 
was in his time, and this fact adds greatly to the credit of those who through the haze 
of dispute and the clouds of battle recognized and proclaimed his greatness. 

"The whitest soul a nation knew."— £dmunJ Clarence Stedman. 

"Lincoln is the honestest man 1 ever knew."— Sfcp/ien j4. Douglass. 

"The most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen."— fdiv/n M. Stanton. 

"God-triven and God-led and sustained we must ever believe him." Wendell Phillips. 

"A man of destiny, with character made and moulded by Divine power to save a nation."— W. H. Seward. 

"Dead, he speaks to men who now willingly hear what before they refused to listen to."-//. W. Beecher. 

"A patriot and a wise man. His death was a calamity for the country, but it left his fame without a fault 
or criticism. -Charles A. Dana. 

"Of all the men I ever met he seems to possess more of the elements of greatness combined with good- 
ness than any other."— W. T. Sherman. 

"There is no man in the country so wise, so gentle and so firm. I believe the hand of God placed him 
where he is."— John Hay (in August, 18631. 

"The true representative of this continent, father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions throbbing 
in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue.— /?a(p/! Waldo Emerson. 

"As a child in a dark night on a rugged way catches hold of the hand of its father for guidance and sup- 
port, Lincoln clung fast to the hand of the people, and moved calmly through the gloom." — Ofori;!" Bancroft. 

"Unquestionably the greatest man I have ever encountered. He will take rank in history alongside of 
Washington. His fame will grow brighter as time passes and his great work is better understood."— t/. S. Grant 
{who knew Lincoln but little more than a year>. 

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TABLET ON CLAVPOOL HOTEL, INDL\NAPOLIS 

Within two squares of the place 
where these words were spoken, on its 
most impressive monument, "To Indiana's 
Silent Victors," it can to-day be seen how 
the men of that State responded to this 
appeal made by one they well knew and 
trusted and counted as their own. 

On that noble shaft it is written that 
two hundred and ten thousand four hun- 
dred and ninety-seven men of Indiana 
responded to their country's call, of whom 
twenty-four thousand four hundred six- 
teen gave their lives in order that, as 
Lincoln put it, "this government of the 
people, by the people and for the people 
should not perish from the earth." 

Space forbids extended reference to 
the great struggle in which nine out of 
every twenty able-bodied men in the free 
states and territories took part ; in which 
over two and a (juarter million men en- 
listed ; overthree hundred thousand were 
lost; and for which twenty-seven hundred 
and fifty million dollars were appropri- 
ated in four years. For this contest, in 
which there were six hundred and twenty- 
five battles and skirmishes. New York 



furnished three hundred ninety-two thou- 
sand two hundred seventy men ; Penn- 
sylvania, two hundred sixty-five thousand 
five hundred seventeen ; Ohio, two hun- 
dred forty thousand five hundred four- 
teen, and Illinois two hundred fourteen 
thousand one hundred thirty-three, while 
other states met the call in proportionate 
numbers. In four weeks Ohio organized 
and placed in the field forty-two regi- 
ments of infantry^nearly thirty-six thou- 
sand men. 

THE HESLER PHOTOGRAPH 

By means of this wonderful photo- 
graph the world is fast becoming ac- 
quainted with Lincoln's striking features 
without the beard, which he first grew in 
ISfiO, at the suggestion of Grace Bedell, 
an unknown little girl, living in Western 
New York. Being disappointed at a crude 
poster of Lincoln which she had seen, the 
little girl wrote him a letter suggesting 
that a beard might improve his picture. 
This naive epistle pleased Lincoln, who 
later, on his way to Washington, when his 
train stopped at Westfield, inquired for 
the little maiden, showed her how his new 
beard looked, and gave her a kiss to be 
remembered forever. 

This negative became the property of 
George B. Ayres when he purchased the 
Hesler photograph gallery. After some 
years he began to realize its historic in- 
terest, and placed it with another taken at 
the same time among his personal effects 
when he moved from Chicago in 1867. In 
this way they escaped the great Chicago 
fire of October, 1871. Mr. Ayres after- 
ward moved to Philadelphia, where he 
resided till his death in 1907. 

Of this photograph Lincoln himself 
said : "Well, that looks better and ex- 
presses me better than any I have seen. 
If it pleases the people I am satisfied." 
Lincoln's early companions, those who 
knew him before war and worry had 
used him for an anvil, pronounced the 
photograph a beautiful and truthful rep- 
resentation of their friend. 

THE CAST OF LINCOLN'S HAND 

This was made by L. W. Volk at 
Lincoln's Springfield home. Asked to 
clench his fist about some object, Lincoln 
went to his wood-shed, placed an old 
broom handle on the sawbuck, and sawed 
the section shown in the cast. Replying 
to Volk's apology for the trouble he had 
made, Lincoln remarked: "I have always 
been my own wood sawyer." 



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From Ht-arsoirs MiiKazine,' O.-tobt-r 19US, wnfii it wa^ lir,l uublislu-.l. 

The Dhotoffraph is owned by Mr. Charles W. McLellan of New York. The frame is of walnut 
[ogs spUtlly Lincoln in h,s wood-ehopper days, when he earned thirty-seven eents a day. 



LINCOLN'S NAME 
From what people love the most you 
may likely learn what those people are. 
Notice, and you will find that people do 
not mention Lincoln's name with a 
racket and hurrah ; the men of his day 
doubtless did that, but the years have 
carried him into a better place. At a 
certain depth all human hearts com- 
municate, and far down below the level 
of agitation, or dispute or indifference, 
with the name of mother, of the old home, 
of our dear departed, in every American 
heart is enshrined the name of Lincoln. 



LINCOLN ON LABOR 

"I am not ashamed to confess that 
twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer 
mending rails, at work on a flatboat— just 
what might happen to a poor man's son. I 
want every man to have the chance— and 
I believe a black man is entitled to it— in 
which he can better his condition ; when 
he may look forward and hope to be a 
hired laborer this year and the next, work 
for himself afterward, and finally to hire 
men to work for him. That is the true 
system. Then you can better your con- 
dition, and so it may go on and on." 



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"BACK TO THE DECLARATION" 



The men who took that momentous 
step at Fhilatlelpliia in 1776 spoke for 
Abraham Lincoln, then unborn. Their 
starthng declaration that all men are 
created equal found in Lincoln's heart 
its most sincere acceptance, and in his 
life its strongest champion. With Lincoln 
the Declaration of Independence was no 
"glittering- generality"; his conduct was 
ever in line with its words. 

Standing in Independence Hall at 
Philadelphia, on February 22, 1861, on 
his way to Washington to assume the 
presidency, Lincoln made the following 
solemn and prophetic address : 

"I am filled with deep emotion at 
finding myself standing in this place, 
where were collected together the wis- 
dom, the patriotism, the 
devotion to principle 
from which sprang the 
institutions under which 
we live. 

You have kindly sug- 
gested to me that in my 
hands is the task of re- 
storing peace to our dis- 
tracted country. I can 
say in return, sir, that all 
the political sentiments I 
entertain have been 
drawn, so far as I have 
been able to draw them, 
from the sentiments which 
originated in and were 
given to the world from 
this hall. I have never 
had a feeling, politically, 
that did not spring from 
the sentiments embodied 
in the Declaration of Independence. 

I have often pondered over the dan- 
gers which were incurred by the men who 
assembled here and framed and adopted 
that Declaration. I have pondered over 
the tf)ils that were endured by the officers 
and soldiers of the army who achieved 
that independence. I have often inquired 
of myself what great principle or idea it 
was that kept this Confederacy so long 
together. It was not the mere matter of 
the separation of the colonies from the 
motherland, but that sentiment in the 
Declaration of Independence which gave 
liberty not alone to the people of this 
country, but hope to all the world, for 
all future time. It was that which gave 




"For thou art Freedom's now. 

and Fame's - 
One of the few. the immortal names 

That were not born to die." 



promise that in due time the weights 
would he lifted from the shoulders of all 
men and that all should have an equal 
chance. This is the sentiment embodied 
in the Declaration of Independence. 

Now, my friends, can this country be 
saved on that basis? If it can, I will con- 
sider myself one of the happiest men in 
the world if I can help to save it. If it 
cannot be saved upon that principle, it 
will be truly awful. But if this country 
cannot be saved without giving up that 
principle, I was about to say that I would 
rather be assassinated on this spot than 
surrender it. 

My friends, this is wholly an unpre- 
pared speech. I did not expect to be called 
on to say a word when I came here. I 
supposed I was merely to 
do something toward rais- 
ing a flag; I may, therefore, 
have said something indis- 
creet. But I have said 
nothing but what I am will- 
ing to live by, and, if it be 
the pleasure of Almighty 
God, to die by." 

These significant 
words spoken, Mr. Lincoln 
went outside and raised to 
the top of the building he 
so venerated the flag he so 
much loved. There was a 
new star added to it that 
day for Kansas. Thirty- 
four this made it, and 
thirty-four they were to 
remain as the old flag 
rode all through the fierce 
conflict till peace wel- 
comed back the other States to the stars 
that had awaited their return. 

In the speech given above Lincoln's 
address at Gettysburg was foreshadowed 
and embodied. He looked upon this gov- 
ernment of ours as the hope of the race ; 
he looked to it to improve the condition 
of the [jcople ; to "lift the weights from 
the shoulders of all men." He regarded 
the war as a test if this were possible. His 
faith in the people and the people's God 
made him sure of the result ; made him 
willing to bide his time; made him each day 
dedicate himself anew to the task remain- 
ing before him in order that "government 
of the people, by the people and for the 
people shoidil not perish from the earth." 



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LINCOLN CRYSTALS 



If a crystal may be defined as a thing of perfect symmetrical form and transparent 
character, then many of the utterances of Abraham Lincoln might be so called. When 
passed through his clear mind and expressed in his clear language, the issues of his 
time were crystallized indeed. Here are a few specimens. 



With public sentiment, nothing can 
fail ; without it nothing can succeed. 

Faith in God is indispensable to suc- 
cessful statesmanship. 
■ Work, Work, Work is the main thing. 

For those who like this kind of book, 
this is the kind of book they will like. 

With malice toward none, with charity 
for all, with firmness in the right as God 
gives us to see the right, let us strive on 
to finish the work we are in. 

That some are rich shows that others 
may become rich. 

The Lord must love the common peo- 
ple — that's why he made 
so many of them. 

Although volume upon 
volume is written to prove 
slavery a very good thing, 
we never hear of a man who 
wishes to take the good of 
it by being a slave himself. 

I should be the most 
presumptuous blockhead 
upon this footstool if I for 
one day thought that I 
could discharge the duties 
which have come upon 
me since I came into this 
office without the aid and 
enlightenment of One 
who is stronger and wiser 
than all others. 

Our Government rests 
in public opinion. Who- 
ever can change public 
opinion can change the 
Government practically just so much. 
Public opinion on any subject always has 
a "central idea." That central idea in our 
political public opinion at the beginning 
was "the equality of men." And its con- 
stant working has been a steady progress 
toward a practical equality of all men. 

One war at a time is enough. 

I know I am right because I know 
Liberty is right. 

If men never began to drink they 
would never become drunkards. 

Let not him who is houseless pull 
down the house of another, but let him 
work diligently and build one for himself. 




"His life was frentle. 

.\nd the elements so mixed in him, 

That Nature mitrht stand up 

And say to all the world. 

'This was a man.' " 



There is no grievance that is a fit ob- 
ject of redress by mob law. 

Let us have faith that right makes 
might, and in that faith let us to the end 
dare to do our duty as we understand it. 
Labor is prior to and independent of 
capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor 
and could never have existed first. Labor 
is the superior of capital and deserves 
much the higher consideration. No men 
living are more worthy to be trusted than 
those who toil up from poverty. 

A house divided against itself cannot 
stand. I believe this Goverment cannot 
endure permanently half 
slave and half free. I do 
not expect the Union to be 
dissolved, but I do expect 
it will cease to be divided. 
It will become all one 
thing or all the other. 

In the right to eat the 
bread which his own hand 
earns the negro is my 
equal, and the equal of 
Judge Douglass, and the 
equal of every living man. 
You can fool all of the 
people some of the time, 
and some of the people all 
of the time, but you cannot 
fool all the people all the 
time. 

What I say is that no 
man is good enough to gov- 
ern another man without 
that other's consent. This 
is the leading principle — the sheet anchor 
of American republicanism. 

Stand with anybody that stands right. 
Stand with him while he is right, and part 
with him when he goes wrong. 

I am not bound to win, but I am bound 
to be true ; I am not bound to succeed, but 
I am bound to live up to what light I have. 
I have no prejudice against the South- 
ern people. They are just what we would 
be in their situation. If slavery did not 
now exist among them they would not en- 
dorse it. If it did now exist among us, 
we should not instantly give it up. 
What is inherently right is politically safe. 



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A SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE 



To a ijreat and glorious army of Iut sons 
there was given, as to Abraham Lincoln, 
the great honor to die for our country ; 
hut to none of them was it also given to 
love and labor for it so effectively as he. 
We must not in his goodness lose 
sight of his greatness. Like many others, 
lie was a man of the people, but to an 
unusual degree he was the people's man : 
he understood them, he sympathized with 
them, he thought of them, he consulted 
with them, and it was always his highest 
satisfaction to know and do their will. 



this same compass, soon to mislay it, but 
Lincoln used it to the end. "The people ! 
the people !" this was the keynote of his 
service, the foundation of his statesman- 
ship. An unfailing faith in the common 
people and the common righteousness of 
the plain people, as he called them, was 
the compass by which he ever steered his 
difficult course. This compass brought 
him to his great goal, and made him ever- 
more the answer of Democracy when 
challenged by the nations of the world, 
"Show us your man." 




THE EAIil.IEST I'OKTRAIT OE AHKAllAM EINl 
Eruni "Lite ut Lineuln," published by Duiib!eii;iy, I' 



From the oriijinal daguerreotype owned by tlu* Hoti. Robert T. Lincoln 
Date tlioutrht to be 1S48, when Lincoln was 39. 



He declared : "The one great living prin- 
ciple of all democratic government is that 
the representative is bound to carry out 
the known will of his constituents." At 
the very beginning of his public service 
he said: "While acting as their repre- 
sentative I shall be governed by their will 
on all subjects on which I have the means 
of knowing what their will is; and upon 
all others I will do what my own judgment 
teaches me will advance their interests." 
Many officeholdfrs have started out with 



A GROWING FAME 

Every year since 
Lincoln's death has 
carried his name and 
fame higher in the es- 
timation of mankind. 
There are at least five 
hunilred Lincoln col- 
lections and a grow- 
ing Lincoln litera- 
ture. There are said 
to be three thousand 
hooks and pamphlets 
on Lincoln, not in- 
cluding periodical 
literature, engrav- 
ings, lithographs, 
paintings and music. 
There are, besides, 
large collections of 
photographs and also 
of relics such as that 
of Mr. Oldroyd, in the 
house at Washington 
in which Lincoln died. 
Lives of Lincoln have 
been published in all 
leading foreign lan- 
guages. The words of 
Lincoln have become 
the common property of mankind and 
they are everywhere used in conversation 
and in literature as are those of his favor- 
ite authors, Shakespeare and Burns, or of 
the Bible, from which he himself so fre- 
(piently and so effectively drew. And so 
it is that Lincoln is to-day a growing in- 
fluence in the affairs of men ; and so will 
it be as each succeeding year further car- 
ries his words into the language, his 
ideas into the government and his nieni- 
orv into the hearts of his countrvmen. 



OEN. 
a«e .t Co, 



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STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, UNVEILED IN HIS NATIVE TOWN. HODOENVILLE, KV. 
MEMORIAL DAY. 1909. ADOLPH A. WEINMAN, SCULPTOR. 
From Collier's Weekly, June 19, 1909. 



This statue is an outgrowth of the worl< of the Lincoln Farm Association, in pre- 
serving and popularizing Lincoln's birthplace. It is the gift of the State and the Nation 
to the little town near which the great Emancipator first saw the light of day. 

The statue is located in the Court House Square. The unveiling ceremony was beau- 
tiful and impressive. A long procession of school children, all in white, each carrying a 
wreath of roses, acted as escorts to the carriages containing the guests. Among these 
were Honorable Robert T. Lincoln and Mrs. Ben Hardin Helm, a sister of Mrs. Abraham 
Lincoln, who unveiled the statue. The photograph gives a happy picture of this inter- 
esting event : with flowers and garlands, with singing children, with veterans of the 
blue and the gray, with the grandchildren of Lincoln's neighbors, with his only surviving 
son, with the sister of his wife, with the strains of the "Star Spangled Banner", "My 
Old Kentucky Home" and "America", with the old flag over all, the men and women of 
Kentucky did honor to her most famous son. 

Colonel Henry Watterson, a Confederate veteran, and doubtless the best known 
Kentuckian living, in his address said: "Lincoln's one aim, his single purpose, was to 
save the Union. We owe its preservation to his wisdom, to his integrity, to his firmness 
and his courage. As none other than Washington could have led the armies of the 
Revolution from Valley Forge to Yorktown, none other than Lincoln could have main- 
tained the government from Sumter to Appomattox. All of us are Unionists now." 



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